Snapshots of the fortnight (September 2 to 16)

September 2 to 16

Published: Sep 16, 2015

French engineer and professional violinist Laurent Bernadac plays the "3Dvarius", a 3D pri

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French engineer and professional violinist Laurent Bernadac plays the "3Dvarius", a 3D printed violin made of transparent resin, in Paris, France, on September 11

An Airbus A321 is being assembled at the company’s US manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabam

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An Airbus A321 is being assembled at the company’s US manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama, on September 13. Airbus Group's new factory will build predominately A321 aircraft, the company's largest single aisle plane, Airbus Group's president and CEO Fabrice Bregier said

Bride Dilges Baskin, who has covered her face with a scarf in yellow-red-green Kurdish colours, gets

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Bride Dilges Baskin, who has covered her face with a scarf in yellow-red-green Kurdish colours, gets in her wedding car, near armoured police vehicles (in the background) in Yuksekova, Turkey, on September 6. Militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been clashing almost daily with security forces in southeast Turkey since July, when a two-year ceasefire between the PKK and the government collapsed. Officials say more than 70 members of the security forces and hundreds of Kurdish militants have been killed

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates after winning the US Open on September 13. Djokovic defeate

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Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates after winning the US Open on September 13. Djokovic defeated Switzerland’s Roger Federer 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to win his 10th Grand Slam title

A construction crane crashed in the Grand Mosque in Mecca on September 12, killing at least 107 peop

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A construction crane crashed in the Grand Mosque in Mecca on September 12, killing at least 107 people and injuring over 400 others, days before the Haj pilgrimage

An elderly woman is carried by an ambulance worker after being rescued by a helicopter from an area

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An elderly woman is carried by an ambulance worker after being rescued by a helicopter from an area flooded by the Kinugawa river, caused by typhoon Etau, in Joso, Japan, on September 10. Japan evacuated about 100,000 people from their homes, after rare torrential rains unleashed floods

Policemen are hit by eggs as farmers and dairy farmers from all over Europe take part in a demonstra

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Policemen are hit by eggs as farmers and dairy farmers from all over Europe take part in a demonstration outside a European Union farm ministers' emergency meeting at the EU Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on September 7. Thousands of farmers gathered in the European capital calling for more help with low prices and high costs

A supporter of Uganda's former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi wrestles with a policeman in Jinja t

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A supporter of Uganda's former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi wrestles with a policeman in Jinja town on September 10. The police fired tear gas and live bullets to disperse a campaign rally held by Mbabazi, who is seeking to unseat veteran leader Yoweri Museveni in next year's elections

Lilian Tintori (centre), wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, holds a letter

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Lilian Tintori (centre), wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, holds a letter by her husband during a press conference in Caracas on September 11. Venezuela's opposition denounced the sentencing of Lopez to nearly 14 years in jail as a tyrannical move by the unpopular ruling Socialists, vowing to redouble their campaign to beat them in December's parliamentary election

Catalan pro-independence supporters hold a giant "Estelada" (Catalan separatist flag) duri

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Catalan pro-independence supporters hold a giant "Estelada" (Catalan separatist flag) during a demonstration called "Via Lliure a la Republica Catalana" (Way of Freedom for the Republic of Catalonia) on Catalunya's National Day in Barcelona, Spain, on September 11. Thousands of people packed the streets to call for Catalonia to break away from Spain, two weeks before a September 27 regional election that many see as a "make-or-break" moment for the independence movement

A Syrian refugee is helped out of a dinghy that deflated due to the rocks on the shore, on the isola

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A Syrian refugee is helped out of a dinghy that deflated due to the rocks on the shore, on the isolated islet of Nera in Greece on September 10. The refugees, who sailed in the night and landed on Nera after mistaking it for Agathonisi, were stuck on the islet. Agathonisi, a tiny island with less than 200 residents, receives about 300 to 600 refugees and migrants every day. Most of the people flooding into Europe are refugees fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries who have a legal right to seek asylum, the United Nations said

Migrants eat at a reception centre after their arrival at the main railway station in Dortmund, Germ

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Migrants eat at a reception centre after their arrival at the main railway station in Dortmund, Germany, on September 13. Germany re-imposed border controls after Europe's most powerful nation acknowledged that it could scarcely cope with thousands of asylum seekers arriving every day

A labourer works inside the manufacturing unit of iron parts at a factory on the outskirts of Kolkat

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A labourer works inside the manufacturing unit of iron parts at a factory on the outskirts of Kolkata on September 11. India's annual industrial output growth slowed to 4.2 percent in July compared with an upwardly revised 4.4 percent growth a month ago, government data showed

Five-year-old Karkar tries to drink water from a faucet near his home in the Eshash el-Sudan slum in

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Five-year-old Karkar tries to drink water from a faucet near his home in the Eshash el-Sudan slum in the Dokki neighbourhood of Giza, south of Cairo, Egypt, on September 2. Residents of the slum clashed with the police in late August, when about 50 ramshackle huts were destroyed and at least 20 people were injured. The slum dwellers, some of whom have called Eshash el-Sudan home for 50 years, say there are not enough apartments built nearby to house them

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